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Ysabel
A Fantasy Novel by Guy Gavriel Kay
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Mythic Retelling,
- Contemporary Setting
This book is for you if you're into...
- Mythic figures crashing into modern-day France
- Cathedrals where history and the supernatural bleed together
- Teens stumbling into ancient conflicts with real consequences
The multiple award-winning fantasy author of The Fionavar Tapestry brings his extraordinary imagination to a tale of mythic figures in contemporary times...
Ned Marriner is in France with his father, a celebrated photographer shooting the Saint-Sauveur Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence.
While exploring the cathedral, Ned meets Kate, an American exchange student with a deep knowledge of the area’s history. But even Kate is at a loss when she and Ned surprise a scar-faced stranger, wearing a leather jacket and carrying a knife. “I think you ought to go now,” he tells them. “You have blundered into a corner of a very old story...”
In this ancient place, where the borders between the living and the long-dead are thin, Ned and his family are about to be drawn into a haunted story, as mythic figures from conflicts of long ago erupt into the present, changing—and claiming—lives.
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